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Not a bad showing this year!  Congratulations to Chris Coady and Eric Broucek for their work with Gang Gang Dance, Cold Cave, Eleanor Friedberger, Holy Ghost! and Smith Westerns.  Pitchfork and NPR like you guys, they really, really like you guys.

I’m probably missing someone, but here is a (nearly) complete list of artists we’ve worked with in 2011.  It’s been a great year!

The year-end lists are starting to roll in and the Just Managing crew has placed quite a few albums on them!  Congratulations to James Brown, Eric Broucek and Chris Coady for their work on albums by Foo Fighters, Smith Westerns, Eleanor Friedberger, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Arctic Monkeys, Cold Cave, Holy Ghost!, Mates of State and Gang Gang Dance.  Click the list below to enlarge (I do not feel like dealing with formatting issues this morning!)

Congratulations to James & Chris for landing albums in Stereogum’s “Top 50 of 2011″ list.  See the full list here.

6. Gang Gang Gang Dance “Eye Contact” [4AD] • Chris Coady Engineer

25. Cold Cave “Cherish The Light Years” [Matador] • Chris Coady Producer/Mix

26. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Belong” [Slumberland] • James Brown Engineer & co-prod on “Too Young”

37. Smith Westerns “Dye it Blonde” [Fat Possum] • Chris Coady Producer/Mix

Thanks to SonicScoop, you all can check out a behind the scenes video of our CMj recording event.  Geoff Sanoff is interviewed, as well as Widowspeak, Tall Ships and 1,2,3.  Check out the video and accompanying story here at SonicScoop, or just watch the video below.

SonicScoop & SoundToys Present…Inside Sessions @ The Fred Perry Artists Lounge (ft. Tall Ships, 1, 2, 3 and Widowspeak) from SonicScoop on Vimeo.

That’s right, seven – including Album of the Year, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album.  Congratulations James, Alan, Butch, Joe, Emily and everyone else involved.  Here is a photo of James taken during the recording of “Wasting Light” with (L to R) Dave, Krist, James, Alan Moulder and Butch Vig.  Click here for a full list of nominees.

For the past month or so, our James Brown has been in Los Angeles engineering the new Matchbox Twenty album with Matt Serletic producing.  Here is a photo of James (with Matt in the background) I stole from the bands twitter.

Earlier this year Kyle “Slick” Johnson produced, engineered and mixed the upcoming LP by one of my favorite bands at the moment, North Highlands.  They shot a video for “Benefits” and Pitchfork debuted it today – click below to watch!

Head over here to Insound.com for a free download of all 14 songs recorded at our CMJ event *and* the hilarious interview each band did with author and artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees.  Weekend, Widowspeak, Gauntlet Hair, Tall Ships, WATERS, Cavemand & 1,2,3 all took part and were a pleasure to work with.  Thanks to Geoff Sanoff for recording and mixing and Matt Shane for mastering the session.